Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the meat shortage producing grave new complications, the President issued a statement saying...
Despite a record of sincere endeavor, it is obvious there are grave weaknesses in this system of rule by fiat. A workable solution must be created to take the place of this phantom-like government. It is part of the job of the men selected by the House meetings this week to draw up a constitution that will embody enough popular control to bring the Student Council out of the 19th century. And the first essential of this control lies in ratification of the constitution by the entire student body, lest future Student Councils find themselves in the unenviable position...
Solitary Confinement. Last May, a few days before the critical referendum which marked the surprise setback of Communism in France, Dewavrin was spirited away to solitary confinement in a Metz Army fortress. The Government's only explanation: Dewavrin had been guilty of "grave administrative faults...
...Summer committee, headed by Edric Weld '48, declined to take action on the HLU proposal for the study because it was felt it "would be a grave mistake, in the absence of two-thirds of the student body during the summer term." It was also felt that summer Council has no power to make such a more, inasmuch as the full Council membership would not be present until this fall...
...finance committee of Chicago's City Council faced a grave crisis. The municipal court's psychiatric institute had sent in a request for a $2,300 appropriation...